Breathing new Life into an old HP Micro Gen8! I was quite happy with its hdd performance, but adding a sata extender card, a FLOPPY-to-dual-sata power adapter (yes these exist!) and some cli magic to setup the lvm-cache yielded 600 MB/s burst and ~300MB/s sustained load. All i need now is something capable of using 802.3 Link Aggregation - but in the meantime i'll use its 2x1G connections with its now ridiculous random read and write performance. <3